Introducing a new novel, and a new series. The Lady And The Rake: A Scandalous Arrangement is a clean Regency romance. It was HUGE fun to write. The novel introduces the Eardleys, who aren’t your typical Regency ton family. Yes, they’re wealthy, and Mrs. Eardley’s daughters are looking for ...
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Social Media: 3 Ideas For Your 2020 Content Calendar
Love it or hate it, social media promotion is essential for authors. A friend and I were commiserating that social media is so challenging. It’s easy to spend half an hour on Facebook without achieving anything. Neither of us could work out whether social media was worth ...
Creative Anxiety: 3 Ways To Write Even If You’re Stressed
If you’re creative, you’ll feel creative anxiety. The good news: over time, you get used to feeling anxious at the beginning of every writing session. Anxiety, although it feels unpleasant, is natural and normal. The poet T. S. Eliot said: “anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity,” so ...
Your Bullet Journal: 5 Tips For Self-Publishing Authors
Our writers’ group has several self-publishing authors who happily use a bullet journal. So, in our last meeting, we discussed ways to use our journals to track book sales and other activities related to our businesses. “I’d love to use a bullet journal, but I’m not an artist,” one author ...
Writing Tools: Use Your Spare Minutes To Write
Do you wish you had more time to do the things you’d like to do? In our writers’ group meeting, we discussed writing tools which can help us to save time and get more done. This inspired me because in 2019, writing has dropped off my radar. I don’t have hours to write. Although I’ve had spare ...
Become An Author Even If You’re Terrified Of Publishing
One writer who’s attending our monthly writing group get-togethers admitted that she’s terrified of publishing. She was surprised at how many of us admitted we felt the same way. “Use a pen name,” someone urged. This author writes erotica; in his day job he’s an accountant. “Blog,” ...
Blogging: The Perfect Holiday Side Hustle?
In our last writers’ group meeting, authors were looking for ways to make money for the holidays. Blogging was a popular option — several of the group have young children, so they can work from home. Blogging’s the perfect holiday side hustle. If you want to try it, start looking for gigs ...
